Nkuhuma Pride

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(06-10-2024, 04:10 AM)Duco Ndona Wrote: Dormant threads are normal in any forum. Its perfectly reasonable to close the book once every living member of a coalition has passed away.
I don't think its a solution anyway. At one point all of their offspring will be either death or have become successful enough to get their own thread. 
Leaving little reason to post in the Avoca one anymore unless the new generations are blocked from their spot in the spotlight.


The whole bloodline thing is in my opinion mostly male lion fanboyism anyway. Nobody ever takes into account the pedigree of the lionesses in these things. 
Take for instance, the Othawa male. Would if he was still alive fall under a Majingilane or Mapogo lineage thread? Or seeing he was a territorial male in his own end, get his own?
And that is just one generation. Imagine how difficult it will be 10 years from now to know where to post or find information on a specific coalition without knowing who their grandfather is.
And we are not even talking about cases where the father is unknown. 

I know, getting things organizing is tricky. Especially on a forum which aren't meant for record keeping of this nature. But I don't think organizing things on something as complex as bloodlines is going to help us in the long run. 
I think a stickied genealogy thread with links to the threads of the discussed groups might be interesting idea?

I disagree on the fanboyism part, I mean new people coming in, and many of us who have been around for a minute, find it much easier to find out about a specific male, or group of, without reading a post about him in one thread, then having to look through multiple other threads to find out other things. As for OM, these are male lineage threads, he would never have ended up in the Mapogo thread, the only other place he might have ended up was in either the Othawa thread, or the SS thread where the posts about him before his passing were made previously, possibly even the Mangheni thread for as long as he remained with them. We have to focus on the many balls we have in the air, simultaneously, and keep things as organized as we're able. 

At the end of the day, not for a lack of effort on our part, but it is literally impossible to make everyone happy with our decisions, sometimes it might not even be the majority, in a situation where a decision is made for the benefit of the site. We are always open to new ideas, and your single repository suggestion is a really interesting idea. I just do not see how that could be done, that would be a really in depth and time consuming project. Keeping up with this entire site, beyond just the lion section, requires a lot of time and effort in itself, time that nobody is being paid for. Myself, and many others on this Team are on this site 7 days a week, several hours a day as it is. We do it for our love for the wild world, animals in general, and in this case, lions specifically, as well as for the community as a whole and the site specifically. Asking members of the team to devote their time to documenting every mention of the lions contained in the Lineage threads, and the links to those posts would be a monumental undertaking.

If you'd like, we can continue this conversation via PM, and allow the conversation to get back on topic.

Cheers, my friend! Reply